Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging a...
Religion is the opium of the masses.
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all i...
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingne...
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; ...
Religion is the opium of the poor
Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness.
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Coincidence sometimes happens as in a fairy tale. Wong was in an emotional state of mind. Still smoking opium, he thought about Kwang’s long-dead father, who had arrived in Singapore from Amoy on the junk Nam Hong. The opium den now felt bare and l...
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
